Discussion on National Infrastructure Resilience

I think the transition to conflict, transition to war, as it's

described, NATO describes it, transition to conflict,

has a military component to

it, but also has a civilian component to it.

The SDR talked about how we protect our critical national infrastructure,

and we also talk about how we need to build that resilience into the

systems as we renew them. I talked before Christmas of the need that

when we think about renewing our water infrastructure or our

electricity or our transport infrastructure, to think about the threat

of action from a, an adversary that is above the threshold wars.

It's not just a hybrid threat, and think about how we build in that

resilience as we renew it. And that requires to make some different

choices and

different priorities. And that work that the Cabinet Office

is doing across the

whole of government is something I really welcome